Apparatus for bottling liquids



Apr. 1o, 1923. v1,451,351

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C. J. VAN DOREN APPARATUS FOR BOTTLING LIQUIDs Filed sept. 18, .1926 .4 sheets-sheet 4 Patented p Apr. 10, 1923.

UNITED STATES PATENT oFF-lor..

CHESTER 'VAN' DOREN, OF OAK PARK, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-HALF TO H. T.

- DORRINGTQN, 0F CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. i

APPARATUS FOR BOTTLING LIQUIDS.

.Application led September 18, 1920. Serial No. 411,172.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHESTER J. VAN Dorian,l a citizen of the United States, and resident of Oak Park, countyof Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Bottling Liquids, of which the following is a specification and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof. l

The invention relates to filling and corkingbottle's, and-has as an object the provision of an apparatus for carrying out this.

operation in multiple, with a.v minimum of individual attention to the bottles and with a minimum of hand work.

Illustrative embodiments of the apparatus provided by the invention :are shown in the accompanying drawings, in'which Fig. 1 is a verticallongitudinal section of a cork press; p

Fig. 2 is a perspective View of a bottle rack;

Figs. 3 and 4 are detail vertical sections showing `a bottle rack, neck guide and cork rack, respectively, before and after the insertion of the cork;

Fig. 5 is a horizontal section on line 5 5 of Fig. l;

Fig. 6 -is a press;

Fig. 7 is a detail plan View of a cork rack partly broken, away to show the neck guide and bottle rack;

Fig. 8 is a side elevation of a cork rack filling machine, partly broken away;

front elevation of the cork Fig. 9 isa detail horizontal section on line 9-9 of Fig. 8;

Fig. 10 is a detail side elevation of a. displacing tool; y y l Fig. 11 is a central vertical section on line 11-11 of Fig. 8;

Fig. 12 is a horizontal section on line 12- 12 of Fig. 8; and

Fig. 13 is a perspectivev view of a cam wheel.

The bottles to be filled are placed'in a rack 10, shown in perspective in Fig. 2, which rack has a plurality of compartments 11.l

which may each contain aplurality of bottles. The bottles are preferably filled by immersing the rack filled with bottles in liquid which may be placed in a vat 12 for the purpose. The bottles may be prevented from oating by tilting the rack to ya relatively sharp angle while immersingthe bottles. To allow the liquid to escape from the1 rack nvhen the bottles and rack are lifted out -of the vat, the bottom of the rack is made of foraminous material, as wire fabric 13.

The immersion of the bottles will fillfthem" too full for corking.- To displace a predetermined amount of liquid from each bottle a tool 14, shown in Fig. 10, is utilized. The fingers 15 of this tool are small enough to freely enter the necks of the bottles, and are made of the right length to displace the desired amount of liquid when inserted their full length into the necks of the bottles. The spacing of the fingers 15 is adjusted to permit agfinger to enter the neck of each bottle in a row when the bottles are contained in the rack 10. f When the rackof filled bottles isremoved from the vat it may be placed the sides 18 of the press bed, in which notches the wings 16 may seat. As each row of corks is inserted the rack is moved forward one notch. The wings 17 restupon the upper edges "of the sides 18, and hence elevate that side of the rack so as to hold the rack level.

To hold the necks of the bottles in accurate spacing and alignment a neck guide 22, in the form of a board with a hole 23 foreach neck, is shown. The holes 22 are preferably formed upwardly converging so'as to guide the bottle necks to position when the rack is placedthereon. Cleats, as 24, may be provided to rest upon the partitions 25 of the bottle rack 10. Also dowel pins 26 and cleats 27 to locate and support the cork rack to be described.

yTo hold the corks in. alignment with the bottle necks a cork rack, as 28, is shown havthe holes. into register..

and taper that the size of tapered Cork to be vThe lower portions I of the holes 29 are shown as of such a size used willfit therein and project downwardly therefrom nearly as far as the cleats A27 are thick.

The corks may be forced, home by means of plungers 31carried by a reciprocating bar 32, which may be actuated by a foot lever 33 through the medium of a link 34, cross-bar 35, and vertical members 36 attached to the bar 32 and sliding in ways 37. A spring 38 is shown tohold the bar 32 in a normally elevated position. With the bottles in the rack filled and with their contents reduced by means of the tool 14, the wings 16 are placed inthe first of the notches 2l, the

neck guide is placed on the necks lof the bottles, the cork rack filled with corks is placed on the dowel pins 26, and the foot lever 33 is forcibly depressed, Where'bythe first row of bottles in thei rack will have the corks forced into their necks. The depression of the bar 32 and fingers 31 will force the corks through the 'holes in the cork rack, compress ing them to some extent inthe process. The corks will Anot entirely recover from this compression-before they are finally seated in the bottles, and will therefore be more firmly held than -if merely pressed in, in their normal condition.

The cork racks may be filled with corks by means of the device shown in igs. 8, 9, 1l, 12 and 13. As shown this device comprises a cage 39, having a removable door 40 and preferably open atthe bottom. The door 40 may have projecting flanges'4l, 42, at bottom and top coacting with rabbets, whereby thekv door may be raised and then swung outward` from thebottom. Springs, as 43, may 'be attached to theftop of the door frame to hold the door down in its closed position. For convenience in observing the operation of the device the sides of the cage and the door may be covered with wire fabric, as 44.

With the door removed the cork racks to be filled may be covered with a surplus of corks poured loosely thereon, and may .then be placed in the cagein ways 45. As shown the cage has a capacity `of three racks. l

As above explained the'lower portions of the holes in the cork racks arevdesigned, in n taper and size, to fit the corks. Immediately 'above this portion each hole has an offset, as

at46, Fig. 3, and above this offset each hole has the form of an inverted frustum of a cone. The diameter ofthe lower portion of this inverted frustum being greater than' that ofthe base of a cork to be handled, it is impossible for a cork to fall into any hole and be held therein frictionally except in its upright position, when it will fall to the charged position shown at 47 (Figs. 3' and Therefore, if a rack covered with corks be subjected toa series of violent upward jerks and theupward motion be suddenly arrested each time, all of the corks not frictionally held byv the rack will be thrown into the air and most of them will be caused to turn over to some extent and in some direction. It is found that a reasonable number of repetitions of such action'will cause around 95% of the holes in the racks to become charged, when the surplus corks may .be swept off and the few uncharged holes suspension means there is `shown an upright bar 53, bolted to members `49, which bar is shown as: secured to a spring in the form of bars 54, pivoted at 55 and rigidly secured to the frame beyond the pivot. The agitation referred to above may be produced by means of a cam wheel 56, having a series of cam surfaces separated by shoulders 57, 58, 59, 60, of differing heights. The wheel 56 is shown as mounted on a shaft 61, turning in bearings 62, 63, and may be rotated by any desired device, as a crank 64.

The bar 53 projects upwardly between the frame members 65, and is pressed against the cam wheel 56 by the spring 54. When the wheel is rotated the cage `will be alternately depressed and violently jerked upwardly, the upward motion being suddenly arrested, thus affecting the corks as above described, The difference in the successive jerks due to the difference in height of the cam shoulders will vary the effect on the corks so as to more efficiently agitate them for the purpose intended, since a succession of identical movements might conceivably turn any individual cork completely over one or more turns at each movement, thus failing to change its positionv while at rest, while a jerk of given intensity followed by one of greater or less intens-ity could not have this result.r If, for example, the jerkthan that caused by the shoulder 57, would either have the effect of more than complete-L ly overturning the cork, or would fail to completely overturn the same.

.When the racks have been 'charged they may be removed from the cage, the surplus corks being swept r:from the surface as they are withdrawn. A tray 66 may be. placed in the base of the device to receive the corks as swept ofi".

Minor changes may be made in the form of the devices and in the process without departing from the spirit of the invention.

I claim as my invention- 71. A cork rack charging device comprising, in combination, a cork rack having a plurality of holes adapted atl their lower portions each to it a. tapered cork projecting a cork seated in said,hole, said increased diameter being greater than the greatest diameter of the tapered cork, 'said hole being of upwardly increasing diameter above said offset, and means to subject said rack to suddenly arrested upward movements. A

2. A cork rack chargingdevice comprising, in combination, a cork rack'having a pluralit of holes each adapted at its lower end to yt a tapered cork and having an oil"- se't adjacent the position occupied by the large end of the cork when seated in the hole, and being of upwardly increasing diameter above said ollset, means to subject said rack to suddenly arrested upward movements.

3. A bottle corking device comprising a press having a sloping bed, inclined side members on said bed having notches, a bottle rack adapted to contain a plurality of rows of bottles, wings at' each end of the sides of the rack, one set of wings being adapted to seat in said notches, the' depth of the notches being such as to level the rack when the other set. of -wings rests on the edges of the sides, and means on said press to drive home a plurality of. corks simultaneously.

4. A bottle corking device comprising, in

combination, a'bottle rack having openings adapted to fit the necks of the bottles to be corked, dowel pins' projecting upwardly from said rack, a removable cork rack having openings to receive said dowelpins, cork openings corresponding to the openings in the bottle rack, and means for driving la plurality of corks simultaneously through the cork racks into the bottles.

5. A bottle corking device comprising, in combination, a removable bottle rack having openings adapted to t the necks of the bottles to be corked, dowel pins -projecting Aupwardly from said rack, a removab e cork rack having 'openings to receive said dowel pins, cork openings corresponding to the openings in the bottle rack spacing means between the racks, and mean for driving a plurality` of corks simultaneously through the cork racks into the bottles.

6. A cork rack charging device comprisl ing, in combination, a cork rack having a plurality of holes each adapted to its lower suddenly arrested movements of unequal intensity.-

'CHESTER J. VAN DOREN.` 

